What to do when your kids nags your ears into a bleeding pulp when she’s trying to make you watch Eurovision song contest? You warp of course [the translator of this post must bite his fingers to avoid a Star Trek joke]! You know everything will be calm for a couple of hours, and that your cussing won’t be heard as good.

Some of the nice ladies I used to weave along with, lent me a warp. It is a small one (150 centimeters circumference), so I chose to shorten my original warp from 14 to 10 meters; thicker thread will of course take up more space. 10 meters will give me enough cloth for making a small hood and a jacket. I dyed the yarn two years ago. Read about it here. It is Moragarn 9600 meters/kilo. It is worsted wool. Sometimes yarn needs to mature, only this time it was chewed on by carpet beetles! I had to splice it, and hopefully it won’t prove a problem later.

The warp stood on the table to let me work kind of comfortably. The yarn went over my ceiling lamp before meeting my hand and ultimately the warp.

The girl that was supposed to watch the song contest fell asleep, but now I only need to work a little bit more before I have my fabric. And it was nice to see Loreen win it all for Sweden.